Or, we could subtitle this post, “the numbers at Gannett leak out, and they reinforce what Gannett veterans already knew.” That is, Gannett never has owned newspapers. By its own preferred corporate-speak, it has owned “profit centers” — and the greedy bastards who ran the company were bold enough to call it just that. A […]

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Back in the United States, most journalists don’t really know about this. Unless they have traveled in Asia and perhaps seen these newspapers on news stands — or had them left at their hotel-room doors. There are more than a few English-language newspapers in Asia. And they could wind up employing out-of-work American journalists. Those […]

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I started this about a week ago, talking about/thinking about a couple of kids I knew from Redlands, during my time at the San Bernardino Sun … Landon Donovan and Ronnie Fouch. The item got so lengthy, though, that I stopped — after musing about Fouch — and promised to come back for Landon. So, […]

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We live in a weird world, kids. And, I suppose, this tame blog is part of it. All blogs are. Random stuff, almost impossible to verify, that should be taken with a boulder of salt whenever “real issues” are being preached. A few lives ago, when I was still sports editor of the San Bernardino […]

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This is my first fall away from professional sports journalism since 1975. And even in 1975, I was covering sports at Long Beach State. That is, I was doing sports for 33 consecutive fall seasons. And the really weird thing is … I don’t much miss it.

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From the time I left Highland, almost a year ago, I began losing touch with the kids I had covered for years. That process accelerated in March when I was excused from the pages of the San Bernardino Sun, after 31-plus years, just after I had moved to Long Beach. And it really moved ahead […]

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I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while. I’ve been put off by how complicated and big a topic it could be. So I’m alllowing myself to be not overly insightful and clever which, often, is the only way you’ll actually get anything written at all. Make that deal with yourself. Sports writing […]

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Another blow to the San Bernardino Sun, and specifically to its sports section: John Murphy is leaving the paper to join its arch-rival, the Riverside-based Press-Enterprise. And there just went one of the last reasons to buy The Sun instead of the PE.

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Maybe an American expat can buy some sort of cable package, here in Hong Kong, that gets you all the sports TV you might be able to see back at home. I haven’t found it yet. But I’m not totally disconnected from the goings on, via television. I saw two L.A. teams in action today, […]

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I am back on the other side of the Pacific. In Hong Kong, former British crown colony and current Special Administrative Region of China. Didn’t see that one coming, barely a month ago. After doing the Beijing Olympics on a freelance basis, my first and (presumably) last journey to China, and returning to Long Beach […]

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